Sentences with phrase «of human religion»

I see six fundamental problems with the Enlightenment taken as a solution to the dilemmas of human religion.

As James Barr pointed out, «Fundamentalism is the imposition upon the Bible of a particular tradition of human religion, and the use of the Bible as an instrument of power to secure the success and influence of that religion.»

If Jesus came to teach that we do actually need good works to get God to love us, then Jesus is actually supporting the central idea of human religion.

But just as God provided a human king in part to show the failure of human kings, so also, God provide a human religion in part to show the failure of human religion.

But mysticism is only a relatively small area within the vast array of human religion.

Nor does the rise of Christianity render obsolete the diversity of human religions and philosophies.

Yet he refuses to collapse biblical theology into the history of the religion of Israel, distinguishing the two this way: ««History of religion» is concerned with all the forms and aspects of all human religions, while theology tends to be concerned with the truth - claims of one religion and especially with its authoritative texts and traditions and their interpretations.»

Yet even today, when the Faith of Christ is decayed among the nations, and when Christianity seems to belie the promises of Christ, and to be passing into the dead world of human religions, one more among many, even today, whatever individual values we hold sacred, whatever sanctity we claim for the personality of man, whatever freedoms, above the rut of biological materialism, we try to salvage from the ruins of a culture, all these are the droplets which remain within that chalice of the Christian Faith dashed down by the nation.

Indeed, in this sense transcendence may be taken as a constitutive characteristic of all human religions.

From there, Beltz has delved into the secret history of weeds in drawings that take a plants - eye view of human history, particularly the role psychedelics have played in the development of human religions and even early America.

During creation of this work, the artist considers the idea of art as an act of worship, as the sun has been the center of worship for the earliest of human religions.

Not exact matches

The top three categories getting most of donations last year were religion ($ 122.94 billion), education ($ 59.77 billion) and human services ($ 46.8 billion).

Canada seeks a world where freedom — including freedom of religion, the rule of law, democracy and human dignity are respected.

Anytime one religion interferes with another religion, or the life of humans, I tend to take it a little more seriously, not because I believe in their beliefs, but because their beliefs can cause me death.

Intermittent fasting over a certain period of time is a feature of great religions all over the world and it is well known that nutritional habits, sleeping patterns and meal frequency have profound effects on maintaining human health.

Some would say, of course, that O'Leary's religion is money; that he appeals to the worst aspect of human nature, greed, and that this in itself disqualifies him from participating in Canadian political life.

She's the world's highest paid female CEO and she just so happens to have also formed Terasem, a religion that hypothesizes that «a person's mind file may be downloaded into a robotic, nanotechnological or biological body to provide life experiences comparable to those of a typical human.»

This is not to dismiss or marginalize the importance of civil and political rights such as freedom of expression and religion, but rather to adopt an integrated approach recognizing that all internationally recognized human rights are universal, indivisible, interdependent and interrelated.

Yet persistent and credible reporting on human rights violations continue, particularly in the areas of repression of political dissent, harassment of lawyers and human rights advocates, and suppression of religion and ethnic minority cultures.

An understanding of good and evil doesn't just come from religion, it comes from being human.

One day, ALL religions will be relegated to the dustbin of history, and humans will realize what utter delusionary non-reality they are!

The offense against religion is that it promotes a God that has poorly designed humans to have too small a birth canal, too large a cranium (pushing wisdom teeth into often painful positions), and since roughly 20 percent of pregnancies end in miscarriage, is responsible for more abortions than anyone.

This «no,» grounded in Hobbes, has tended increasingly to a policy of exclusion of religion, causing a flattening of human life and a sense of spiritual emptiness.

religion is the scourge of the human race, not the mention mankind itself.

They would rather kill me for saying, «muhammad was just another human with illusions of grandeur», then be confident in their religion.

The common image of Calvinism — and I hear it portrayed in this way often, even by people who know some things about theology — is that the religion of John Calvin is a mean - spirited, narrow - minded perspective where a nasty God decides to save a few people while arbitrarily consigning the vast portion of the human race to eternal suffering.

- Pursue the UN Commission of Inquiry's recommendation of referral to the International Criminal Court; - Thoroughly consider and instigate appropriate alternative justice mechanisms to compliment the International Criminal Court process; - Ensure that all discussions on the North Korea at the UN and the EU include human rights and especially the «orphaned right» of freedom of religion and belief: Article 18.

Get rid of all human discriminating religions, or let them evolve; but since their evolution is not possible, let them die like the other ancient myths.

I think many practices of many religions stem from human OCD tendencies.

So how do you go from that reasoning to «Since it wasn't accidental then it must have been this ancient male diety named (fill in blank depending on religion) who loves me and knows me and cares for me and wants me to perform rituals that have nothing to do with morality like prayer, not eating certain things, sabaath and many more just because he said so, even though we have no record of him saying anything, just records of humans who wrote things down that they claim he said, but I want to believe it all so badly I will base my beliefs on no other evidence than «it just can't be accident».

a universalistic millennial civil religion, the meddlesome vision of democracy, peace, and human rights that we live under today, «the first global civil religion.»

Mockery of religion is one of the most essential things... one of the beginnings of human emancipation is the ability to laugh at authority.

see what religion does... all in the name of some imaginary sky - daddy, who is nothing but just one of the thousands of «gods» invented by man over the course of human history.

This is not a reflection on the Muslim people or their faith, but a reflection on the way of all the human race and their religions, including Christianity.

The ignorance bred by religion regarding what human beings as containing a ghost in the machine led the way for the misconceptions believed by communists regarding human beings as blank slates, since both religion and communists envisioned human beings in this flawed conceptual manner, denying the evolved components of the brain and the innate nature we are born with due to our genetic make up.

In an exclusive interview at the launch of a new report into human rights abuses in North Korea he said: «If you are caught practicing religion by yourself then you're sent to prison camps - no question.

I mean, I'm all for (creationism) in philosophy class, history of religion class, human psychology class,» but bring it into science class, and Nye gets upset.

Just as this article said, and my comment above, to solve the divide, we can: (1) Argue about the definition of Race / God (2) Argue about identification in a religion / race (3) Or realize the fundamental problem of prejudice that sneaks into human - made abstractions like «race» and «God».

Religions incorporated and codified these basic social values and skills, and quickly learned to take credit for them — as if, without the religion, we would be doomed to not have them — although we see them in every human society, including hunter - gather tribes with no sense of gods as we understand them After many centuries of religious domination, enforced through pain of death, ostracization or other social sanctions, allowing religion to take credit, as well as failing to question other religious claims — has become a cultural habit.

Your freedom of religion would be «grandfathered in» but would not be allowed to transfer to any other human being.

(Albert Einstein, 1954) From Albert Einstein: The Human Side, edited by Helen Dukas and Banesh Hoffman, Princeton University Press — The religion of the future will be a cosmic religion.

The origins of morality in human cultures are not religion.

You can believe in God without religion, all religions are a creation of the human mind.

Jefferson said some critical things about religion and human nature - that were spot on... Martin Luther apparently actually hated a group of people to the point that he wanted them gone.

I frankly believe while there is plenty of need to introduce and reinforce ethics in human endevours, and to have frank, open discussions of these endevours, religion is at its bottom line a matter of faith and, while it can be an individual's guiding influence, it is not something that should be associated with science.

Bellah and his colleagues praise religion because they note that religious groups, unlike other groups in our society, are concerned not only with the common good of the nation but also with the common good of all human beings.

Any one who knows the long and convoluted, very human process of the integration of the «Yahweh» god, (the god of the armies), into Hebrew culture, could never for a moment take it seriously, as well as the development of the major tenets of Christianity, most of which were not spoken of by the so - called «founder» of that religion, (but instead were developed by his followers), many years later, including the long, and very interesting concoctions of his cult.

Since humans are flawed creatures, we must recognize that each one of us is capable of being wrong or bad, so, the consequences of our actions must be consistent or no law and no amount of knowledge of any religion will matter.

I am not sure that a practicing believer of any faith, taking a break from verbosity about their religion, will be any less religious... or gain much insight into the commonality of humanity and human experience.

Hatred founded on a lack of experience or understanding of fellow humans is the worst any person can possibly be, and no nationality or religion will make it otherwise.